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WHOLESOME EATING RIGHT FROM OUR OWN GARDEN
There is nothing so gratifyingly wholesome and healthful as growing our food and herbs right outside our own kitchen door. I know I\'ve said this many times before - yakety, yak, yakety-yak! And I\'ll keep on doing so because we have become a drug addicted nation from horrible dis-eases and body ailments that are UN-necessary. We were not created drug deficient!
There is no good reason for all the diseases and ailments we have in our country. It either starts from what\'s in the air, our water, or our food.
And does anyone REALLY pay attention to those TV commercials where they fill up only about 10 seconds of air time with their "cure" for one disorder, then fill the remaining 30 seconds with all of the more serious side effects the drug can cause like heart attack, stroke, stomach ailment, addiction, and more? My teenage neighbor came up with that very astute observation! Our kids are smart and savvy to what\'s going on today.
Our body is the only one we\'ll have! I never take my good health for granted.
As we come into a brand new year, this is the time to make a pact with our family, especially to our children, to “take one small step for mankind”, the very best step of all. That\'s the step - a gift - of eating healthier, right from our own garden. We will give our children a life-time gift of being able to grow their own health giving food. And not just a gift to our children but to our own good health. The gift of good health is a gift that is constantly giving.
So many times I hear our youngsters saying, “I like to garden because my grandma, or grandpa or mom and dad have a garden.”
There is nothing more exhilarating as being out in the garden working in the soil, planting that tiny seed that will grow into it\'s full potential. The gift to us will be tasting that first mouth-watering, tastebud-tingling bite of what we\'ve grown with our own hands.
When we grown our own food in our health giving, life-giving garden using what God has abundantly provided for us it becomes our purpose in life....even our passion! When we have a higher purpose of growing our food it gives us a more watchful and higher calling. We become good stewards of the gift we are so generously given.
I rarely shop at the major supermarkets anymore. Who needs “chemicalized”, waxed and cardboard tasting food grown in lifeless soil from who-knows-where using “tinkered with” seeds that can never reproduce themselves!
GOOD GROWING TO YOU. Be good to yourself, be good to your loved ones.
Pat
Contact
Pat Banttari, Master Gardener
dynamic_organics@yahoo.com
(760) 947-0296 or (760) 265-2560
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